## TELEPHONE MEMORANDUM TO L. B. KAMENEV

Source: PSS vol. 51

To Kamenev,

1. It is necessary to direct the greatest attention to collecting English literature devoted to proving that it is more advantageous for the English bourgeoisie to have trade agreements with the Soviet republics than to undertake unprofitable and even ruinous attempts to suppress them. It is necessary to collect such literature for us and, furthermore, to discuss with knowledgeable people whether one should not additionally hire a kind of literary bureau or agency for the publication of such pamphlets, the delivery of reports, their distribution, and so forth. You naturally know with whom this should first of all be discussed.

2. Through special people it is necessary to organize a systematic collection, purchase—sparing no expense—and dispatch to us in 5 copies of books, articles, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, especially in English but also in other languages on questions of the newest economics. The book by Keynes *Economic Consequences of the Peace* may serve as an example. It is precisely this kind of publication that must be collected systematically.

3. The same thing, but only through special people, should be done for the collection and dispatch to us in 20 copies of periodical publications of all kinds, especially pamphlets and protocols in the following 4 directions: 1 - communist, 2 - centrist (such as, for example, the independent party in England), 3 - anarchist or close to it, 4 - syndicalist and so forth.

4. All of this is necessary to organize properly by notarial agreement, necessarily through a person who should be an English citizen and not a communist.

5. For myself personally I request to send: 1 - good newest reference works and consolidated statistical publications, geographical, political and economic, especially in English and French languages, which are easier to obtain in London, and 2 - two good thermoses.

Lenin

Dictated by telephone

17 July 1920
Published for the first time,
from a typescript copy